Moving Facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method

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Moving Facts in an Arctic field : The expedition as anthropological method. / Hastrup, Kirsten Blinkenberg; Flora, Janne; Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck.

In: Ethnography, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2016, p. 1-19.

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Harvard

Hastrup, KB, Flora, J & Andersen, AO 2016, 'Moving Facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method', Ethnography, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138116636900

APA

Hastrup, K. B., Flora, J., & Andersen, A. O. (2016). Moving Facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method. Ethnography, 17(4), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138116636900

Vancouver

Hastrup KB, Flora J, Andersen AO. Moving Facts in an Arctic field: The expedition as anthropological method. Ethnography. 2016;17(4):1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138116636900

Author

Hastrup, Kirsten Blinkenberg ; Flora, Janne ; Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck. / Moving Facts in an Arctic field : The expedition as anthropological method. In: Ethnography. 2016 ; Vol. 17, No. 4. pp. 1-19.

Bibtex

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